Dessert is like a happy ending to every meal. One of my favorite dessert of all time is Baked Alaska. I remember having this dessert for the first time when I was a kid. I remember the slice of cake being lit on fire. This incident stayed in my memory for a long time. I tried to replicated this dessert many times when I was an adult but I have never been able to spark the dessert in the same way as I experienced it back then.
To celebrate a birthday this week, I made a toasted coconut cake. I thought the texture might be nice to duplicate on the risograph. Recently, our risograph machine at school broke down. Everything was put on hold. It was helpless not being able to do anything to help. Someday I hope to be trained to fix the riso. The machine is so popular that it overshadowed everything in the MakersLab. Since it was down, we looked at other things we have at the lab and started making stuff.
For example, Jun our RISO representative let us test out a new product, which can burn a screen at the touch of the button. Since the printmaking lab is limited to students who are enrolled, this gadget is handy to have as everyone is welcome at the MakersLab!
Everyone of us in the community know of someone who lost their house, their life work, or couldn’t return to their home due to the destruction of recent fires in Los Angeles. Is it possible to create something beautiful from something so unexpected and unwelcome?
Perhaps we could take on the philosophy and the inner workings of a risograph. RISO means ideal. The machine reads in value but prints in colors. The colors are so vibrant and saturated that any combination of the outcome is beautiful. How do we take all the things that are challenging at face value and transform these experiences into something amazing?
Comments